Ken Burns has been telling the story of America through his entire career with genre-defining documentaries on the Civil War, ...

Wednesday marks 50 years since the “fall of Saigon” and the end of the Vietnam War. This is certainly understandable. While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the political ...

The Vietnam veterans and other former Special Forces soldiers who meet every Friday at Mike Johnson’s accounting office on Perkins Road plan to watch the 10-part PBS documentary, “The Vietnam War,” ...

People like to say that history repeats itself, but Ken Burns isn’t buying it. “Every event is new and unique,” documentarian Burns says. “What doesn’t change is human nature. Human nature stays the ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns views the Vietnam War as a virus that infected Americans with an array of chronic illnesses — alienation, a lack of civil discourse, mistrust of government and each other. And he ...

The last in the series. I’m not sure whether this qualifies as a scoop or not, but I don’t believe I’ve seen Burns say that he plans to make a Vietnam documentary elsewhere (not that I’ve scoured all ...

This month’s grid is a collaboration between Ken Burns, a documentarian, and Christina Iverson, a puzzle editor.

Nearly 40 million people tuned in for at least one episode of Ken Burns’ documentary The Civil War as it unfurled over five ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns spent his youth protesting the Vietnam War. Over 30 years later, Burns and director Lynn Novick embarked on a ten-year journey to bring light to the war’s corruption. From U.S. Air ...

LOS ANGELES - Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recently compared current issues to "three great crises" of the past in America: the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. Burns, an ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Wednesday marks 50 years since the ...